Luca Manzi is a fourteen year old boy when the Northern Italy Republic of Salò is governed by the Fascists. He becomes a partisan but when the war ends he is disappointed because things have not changed as he had hoped they wood, and he decides to let himself die. He is saved by Edith who tries to introduce him to sex. Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia.
Stefania Sandrelli
as Angela
Teresa Ann Savoy
as Edith
Mario Adorf
as Padre di Luca
Marie-José Nat
as Madre di Luca
Karl Zinny
as Luca Manzi
Jacques Perrin
as Dario
Marc Porel
as Alfio
Nanni Loy
as Il professore
Rachele Cimmino
as